[Gherbod]

I want to keep in touch with a couple of friends and hit upon the idea of playing a multiplayer game over the net. We are fans of RPG and the current plan is to try to play the Icewind Dale trilogy in multiplayer mode while chatting over Teamspeak. I have played (and love!) Baldur's Gate but not I have never played Icewind Dale which I believe has a similar game engine. Anyhow... I want this game to be fun and so I'm looking for a game that none of us have played before. So... is the multiplayer implementation decent or will it be laggy and buggy? Does this sound like it would be fun or would we be better off with a more recent RPG incarnation like Neverwinter Nights or somesuch? (another game I have not played)

Any advice?

- Gherbod

P.S. We plan to play through all of the games. I am assuming that IWD is like BG in this respect... that we could import our game into IWDII.